Chester Concrete: Access and Volumetric Wagons

Recently, we delivered concrete to a customer living in Chester’s green farmlands. The journey for our team was an interesting one, though. This is due to the abundance of farm vehicles (tractors, trailers) using the roads leading to our customer. We experienced not only bumpy back roads but narrow ones, too.
This begs the question: what happens when a job is borderline inaccessible? This is a fair question for a concrete company, as our wagons are very large. Despite this, it is very rare that we cannot deliver to a customer due to access.
The reason being a combination of our drivers being patient and experienced enough to work around these issues. Exercising patience is key for rural sites, as there is little room for error when driving a concrete wagon. Another factor is that almost all of our concrete jobs are extensions on existing properties, which required more than just one concrete wagon to construct.
On home developments for multiple houses, access is easier due to the high volumes of HGVs delivering materials. Another worthwhile point is wagon maintenance, and we are always on top of that. With the rural jobs such as our recent one in Chester, these houses stand on their own on a plot of land. Access is more difficult on rural jobs compared to large developments of multiple houses, where the road leading in is wider to accommodate HGVs.
To conclude, the key to a successful rural concrete delivery is patience and experience, which we have in abundance. Access to our Chester job was neither tricky nor easy, it’s only a matter of time before our next rural job.
Check out our full case study on this Chester job by clicking here.